Sony To Release Sanitized Versions of Movies
 

Yes, you too can simulate a long flight home with this

I'm kind of surprised it's taken them this long, given how much money I'm sure online censors make from the Won't Someone Think Of The Kids crowd.

I wonder how they'll edit Gwen's death in ASM2.

But some of these choices are weird. Why would a little kid choose "Elysium" when he can pick Spongebob instead?

Because there are grown-ups out there who want to see Elysium, but don't want to leave their safe space to do it.

Weird.

I wonder what they're censoring in said movies... a lot of those are pretty tame.

Pixels could be censored by removing Sandler and Paul Blart, or completely censored and just show the original short instead.

So they're going the Walmart route and making clean versions of all the media they receive. Alright then.

Looks like TMNT: OotS and TMNT 2014 made the list.

Ba-dum-bum...

If only Fox did this so I can show my little cousin Deadpool or Logan. :ohwell:

Friend of mine made a version of Deadpool4Kids, though I think it was more an exercise in art than anything else.

I remember him saying it was made extra easy because in costume you couldn't read his lips, so there was less concern about cutting the dialog.

That said, his kid loves it.

I wonder if this is something the director can control at all.
I also wonder if the TMNT re-edit would improve the movie any...

That would be subverting huge reasons behind the films' existences.

Show him anyways. He'll love you for it. Trust me.

That you Grace Randolph?

What? :-?
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Is the studio that strapped for cash?

Looks like some home schooled Christian fundamentalist kid will end up watching a version of the first "Spider-Man" with digitally erased nipples.

Grace Randolph was this critic who whined on twitter because she wanted a pg 13 cut of deadpool for her young son. Everyone laughed at her and nothing came of it.

Yeah, they are. They really need some kind of big hit. They can't take another couple of all-female Ghostbusters reboots, that'd be the end of them.

Ah, I see.
I think they went the right route with the ratings (it's accurate to the source material and is necessary in order to do it justice) it's just that I'd like a cut version to show the kid. If he was my kid I wouldn't mind showing the films to him, but I'm pretty sure his mother would not approve.

2/10
You've done better in the past.

I'm curious, where is the outrage about censorship here?
Why aren't The Usual Suspects complaining about how detrimental this is to both art and the film industry?

Because this isn't at all like the new E.T. DVDs having guns CGI'ed into walkie-talkies, which was a change Spielberg forced on everyone. You can still watch the real movie if you choose to.

Plus, if I want to give a cheeky answer
Sony
Art

pick only one.

Because this really isn't that big of a deal. It's not like Sony isn't releasing the actual cuts.

Seems dumb but whatever. Kids always end up watching unedited or R rated movies anyway. My parents let me. I think a lot do.

We already have "Clean Version" of songs on itunes so a bit surprised it took them so long to get the clean version for movies.

Anyway, movie censoring is for wimps.

Cmon PC, you're smarter than that.

I bet they cut the heavy petting out of Crouching Tiger but leave the blade embedded in that guy's head. What a bunch of sellouts, but I guess you get desperate when you're broke.

My dad showed me Terminator 2 when I was maybe nine or so, and my mother gave me a steady diet of Hitchcock films. I could watch Psycho, but not the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Go figure.

It's not like I didn't know the answer, I was just curious to see how i many ways it would be spun.

This is literally a move to appease to a vocal minority seeking a safe space. And yet... So quiet.

Overprotective parents aren't trashing college campuses.

You clearly don't work in academia.
They do, and they are.

As long as there's the ability to watch the REAL version, I don't mind. I was irritated on a flight last year. I watched Bad Moms, the whole damn thing... it was horrible, ghastly, and painfully unfunny and oddly super sanitized of anything that could be remotely construed as "objectionable." I was very confused as to why they'd make a movie like this, clearly intended for older women, as PG-13.

Then I went home and saw it was an R movie. Then it became clear: the only version available on the plane was an edited-to-be-clean version, apparently, and there was no warning at all that I had been watching a FAKE version. <---- now, this kind of stuff is shifty.

HA!
My mother had a similar thing happen to her when she went to Walmart and bought a cd, only to find the entire thing was a *Radio Edit*.
She was bull$hit, stormed back to the store and demanded a refund.

I'm pretty sure it was an album by Kid Rock.

So now I'm wondering, how will these be labelled.

No, I don't think you do. I certainly didn't hear anyone crying about filthy Sony movies. This is just a market based experiment aimed at a certain demographic. What do I care if the puritans among us want to watch a curse-free Ricky Bobby?

The real versions of all these movies are still readily available. So they're not treading on the artistic integrity of them (anymore than the studio already has at least), and they're not ruining it for everyone else who isn't interested in the training wheels cut.

That's so stupid. Why would anyone want to go and pay money out of their pocket to buy an album CD that's been edited for toddlers? Like a gift from parents to their kid? I'd give it right back to them.

The planes thing, I'm pretty sure it's because they're afraid that the kid sitting next to me might look over and see Mila Kunis' boob on my screen or something. But I definitely wouldn't have watched it at all if I'd known it was edited like that. Who knows, the movie with all the R stuff put back in it might have been OK? I'll never know, because I refuse to risk it again after suffering through the edited one.

because ultimately these things have always been around, now Sony is just being open about it.

Looks like the pressure from the Directors Guild has convinced Sony to amend their plans a little...they will no longer distribute a clean version if a director objects to their film's inclusion.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...es-film-makers

Good. I wouldn't want my final product edited all to hell so that some person who says "heinie" can show one of these films to their kid, or watch it themselves, which is even more appalling

Like, what will some of these movies even be once they're sanitized? In the case of Ghostbusters, I can't see them removing much other than maybe the paranormal blowjob scene and that one time where Venkman says "prick" or whatever. Not exactly drastic changes, to be sure (especially since that BJ scene makes no sense since the scene that explained it was cut), but then again it seems so trivial that it's like, why edit it in the first place?

But who tf wants to see a sanitized version of Step Brothers?? I feel like that movie especially relied on the raunchy R-rated humor it contained. Without it, you just have a weird movie about two dudes who still live with their parents.

Edit: and Goosebumps is already rated PG! What more do they want??

Good. Don't entertain those idiotic wimps.

I don't see what the big deal is. Isn't an option on the disc? As in, both versions on one disc? If that's the case, I don't see why people would be upset over options. If I'm wrong, then OK.

The way I'm reading it, it'll be a different product entirely. So unless you purposely buy the DVD marked as the sanitized version you wouldn't even own it. It's a non-issue.

The only problem I see is that these edited versions could become more common and then finding the unedited ones will be a hassle. Remember in the early DVD days when depending on the film it was sometimes difficult to find a widescreen release instead of fullscreen and that was annoying. But if we use the music analogy, it's definitely a lot more difficult to find edited versions of songs than unedited.